Conversational about kissing?
I've been doing some sorting and organizing and winnowing of books lately, and came across a book that I think...
Archive for Books
Coraline and the perils of DRM: A case study
In 2003, on the evening when Hugo votes were due, I bought a copy-protected PDF ebook of Coraline from the...
Assorted updates
A few assorted life updates: Day job I've been at my current day job for nine years as of today....
The best-sounding new book I haven’t read yet
I was in Borderlands Books yesterday, and I saw a book on the shelf called Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie,...
Theatre women: Female characters in Streatfeild’s _Ballet Shoes_
As noted in my previous entry, I was cutting the Moomin books some slack on the gender-roles front because they...
Moominwomen: Female characters in Jansson’s first two Moomintroll books
Several of my friends grew up reading the Moomintroll books, so I've been hearing the books recommended for a long...
Crowdfunding an sf anthology? Some suggestions
I've seen a couple of Kickstarter/Indiegogo listings for crowdfunded sf anthology projects that don't mention some important-to-me issues. Some crowdfunded-anthology...
Some notes on Card
Some notes toward the blog entry that I'm probably not going to manage to write about Orson Scott Card and...
Small adventures
I'm finally reading Comet in Moominland. (I never read the Moomin books as a kid, but friends have been recommending...
Diversions
This week has been kinda stressful. I'm extremely conflict-averse, and in a normal week I might have minor conflicts with...
What percentage of your book-reading is nonfiction?
It occurred to me recently that I almost never read long-form nonfiction. I read online nonfiction all the time—blogs, news,...
Stranger Here, and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace
Yesterday, I read Jen Larsen's newly released memoir Stranger Here: How Weight-Loss Surgery Transformed My Body and Messed with My...